Aspire Endangered Species?

[qroger]

I am starting look for Aspire parts for brake swap and there don't seem to be many around. Did they all get crushed when scrap steel was high? Maybe just a little dry spell at the pull a part. Lots of Escorts, one Festy. Zero Aspire.
qroger

[batstiva]

Not sure if they got scrapped, or if they just haven't made it into the yards yet. Have only seen one Aspire in the 6 or 7 yards that I have within 40 miles of me. And it had clearly been rolled.

[m715]

I just missed the last two that were used for Pizza delivery down the alley.... scrapped to the crusher a few days ago, and they would not give me a chance at them this time!
Asked if they would sell them one day, two days later I saw them on the truck headed out.....

Michael

[Sparky]

I know of two pretty good ones in JYs near me...not too rare in ATL.

[fattie]

makes me wish i had kept my 95 aspire.

[TominMO]

I don't think as many have made it to the JYs yet. I also suspect they didn't sell as well as the Festys, so there are probably less of them out there. Festivas sold for six years, and Aspires for only four I believe.

[GenevaDirt]

I see them all the time in the yards around here.

[festymick]

Move to Australia mate. On average you might find 6-10 at any given yard. Not to say they are in good nick though
But i do agree, they are becoming more rare and rarely seen in good condition.

[scitzz]

I have seen a few here, but they always seem to have been harvested for an aspire swap

[TominMO]

I have seen a few here, but they always seem to have been harvested for an aspire swap

Luckily my Aspire came with the Aspire swap from the factory. :-)

[qroger]

Move to Australia mate. On average you might find 6-10 at any given yard. Not to say they are in good nick though
But i do agree, they are becoming more rare and rarely seen in good condition.

I wonder if there is a profit opportunity there somewhere. Remove a container-load of non smog related Australian parts and ship them by boat to US of A. Probably not enough nuts on this end. I imagine with China being closer to you than us, they have vacuumed up all the spare metal from you as well.
qroger

[mikec]

prolly....!!.....I can just hear this giant sucking sound as all the metal disappears from down under to be made into cheap crap to sell to us yanks over here !....:-)
hey mate ....just send them all your fosters cans instead of the cars !....:-)

[Festiva_tunner]

I've seen several still on the road in my area - ranging in condition from beaters to Mint theres two with-in 5 min of my work that look like they rolled off the show room floor - neither wants to sell

[scitzz]

Luckily my Aspire came with the Aspire swap from the factory. :-)

Blech

[festymick]

You know- I HAD once thought (if we were financially secure of course) of slowly collecting them and stripping / restoring them. While i think the demand would be high, the profit would not.